Absolute Beginner’s guide to Immunotherapy treatments.

If you’re looking for an introduction to immunotherapy and its different applications, this blog-post will save you a lot of headache and will show the different applications of this type of treatment in layman language.

We’ll be introduced as to what is Immunotherapy, its different types and uses, and we’ll go through with only two types as a start.

First of all what is immunotherapy?

It is the treatment of any type of disease, through the enhancement,suppression, or induction of a response from the immune system. 

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And to simplify it even further, it’s used to either amplify or suppress an immunityeffect.

Now that we know what it’s about, let’s get to understand its different types as follows:

There are two main types: Activation & Suppression Immunotherapies, and other approaches which will introduce in other posts.

We’ll get to exploring them more in detail in other articlesbut before we’re capable of understanding them we have to understand what are immune modulators.

Immuno-modulators are mainly the active agents of this type of treatment, and they’re made of various preparations, that could be natural, synthetic or even recombinant, Cytokines are often the case, but let’s take a look at several examples of them:

1-Cytokines:Interferons, G-CSF

2-ChemoKines:CCL3, CCL26

3-Interleukins: IL2 – IL-12

4-others: cytosine phosphate guano sine,glucans.

What makes these type of active agents attractive for usage as a regimen is that they often have side effects that are not as strong or unfavorable as drugs and also create less resistance when it comes to microbial diseases.

The main type of treatment these immunomodulators are used for is called cell based immunotherapies , which has proven to be effective for some kind of cancer , Immune effector cells are like natural killer cells , dendritic cells ,  macrophages , cytotoxic t lymphocytes …etc. .

Mainly the way to work to protect the body is by targeting abnormal antigen on the surface of the cancerous cells that have mutated.

And thus in this blogpost you were introduced to what is Immunotherapy and its different types and how they actually battle different types of diseases by modification of the immune response and you understood the 2 main types briefly whether it’s activation or suppression and what exactly are immunomodulators , now you have a basic grasp of it .